Development & APIs

Happy new year! Modulartable is a project I’ve been working on since the second half of 2020; originally inspired by chatter on these very boards (e.g. Blockchaining) and wanting to do my very own JavaScript pilgrimage of reinventing the wheel just one more time because I’m sure mine will be rounder. The goal being native and systemic support for Airtable script modularization. Background I really liked the Scripting App since its beta Block days. Not least because the environment is much faster than even most paid coding repositories (I’ve tried them all while moving apartments this year, some are downright terrible. But the fact that it’s joined with a modern relational database opens up some wonderful possibilities. All in all, I wanted to do more. But what little I did know of frontend got

I was wondering if anyone here has managed to write a piece of code in the scripting block to Resize an existing attachment file to match certain dimensions programmatically Obtain the pixel dimensions (height and width) of a image attachment and most interestingly Call Google Vision to run Image Analytics on a image attachment, pulling the results into a text or linked field in Airtable… Cheers, Martin

Hi, I’m learning how to use the scripting block, not too successfully. I have tried to adapt the scripting block “select a record” and one from the thread about linked fields from @capt & @JonathanBowen but I can’t seem to get it to work. I am trying to copy the text output by a formula field (EQ3) into the text field Notes using a button. Any help or advice would be much appreciated! Many thanks, Alastair This is what I have so far: // Name of table let table = base.getTable("Requisitions"); // This script is run from a button field & will use the button's record let record = await input.recordAsync('Select a record to use', table); if (record) { // You can use record.getCellValue("Field na

Hello I would like to speak with a Airtable API developper to get product information from 1Worldsync API. Is there a list of API developpers using Airtable or can you recommend someone? Thanks

I am able to use the API to obtain URLS for images. I can access those URLs from my browser when logged in. However, my API is unable to access the images when using a GET (I am sending the authorization token header): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>Access Denied</Message><RequestId>XXXXXXXX</RequestId><HostId>YYYYYYYYYY=</HostId></Error> HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Content-Type: application/xml Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:36:39 GMT Server: AmazonS3 Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; style-src 'unsafe-inline'; img-src https://*/favicon.ico; sandbox Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * X-Robots-Tag: none X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Referrer-Policy: no-referrer X-Cache: Error from cloudfront Via: 1.1 61e47cd082bb04a8fb8ae61dd54f6b32.cloudfront.net

Hello all, I have been messing around with the API and PHP to try and display a list of records. I have been sort of successful in retrieving records but when it is linked to another table it just shows the Record ID instead of the value from the other table. Anyway around this? For instance in the code below $model is returned as the Record ID instead of the Model Name. if ( array_key_exists ( 'Model', $fields ) ) { echo '<h2>Model</h2>'; echo '<ul>'; foreach ( $fields[ 'Model' ] as $model ) { echo '<li>' . $model . '</li>'; } echo '</ul>'; } Thanks.

Hello, I understand that there are some limits to update records in a table but I cannot find a execution time limit in the documentation or this forum for custom Apps. In my case I would like to update all records of a table so I’ll have to pace the calls to updateRecordsAsync. But I also need to fetch data to an API endpoint with some quota too (in our example 50 / seconds) so the update process overall might take a long time depending on the table size. Taking some margin this operation (fetch data and update record for 5K records) could take ~150s. Will it be a problem ? Thank you in advance for your help Best regards

I have a script that I run through an automation but sometimes also want to run manually. Ideally, I’d like to use the exact same code in both so I don’t have to maintain two scripts. However, the API seems to behave differently in the two environments. Using this exact same code block: let myTable = base.getTable('Some Table'); let query = await myTable.selectRecordsAsync(); for (let record of query.records){ let val = query.records.map(record => { let vals = record.getCellValue("Linked Stuff"); // this field references another table console.log(vals); // ... the rest doesn't matter return 1 // some kind of sum over the records in vals, etc. } } the log statement shows that in the scripting block, “vals” is an array of objects: However, the same code run in an automation (debug

There’s no API call for exporting a table as CSV right? (couldn’t find it in API documentation) Has anyone written a script that mimic that functionality by iterating through all the records, replacing linked record IDs with names, and then, generating said CSV? If not, I’ll work on writing one…

My goal is to send an email to every (50+) people every month that reminds them to submit timesheets. I tried to set this up in Zapier, however Zapier will not run the same row twice… #fail. So I set up an Integromat account, however Integromat requires a Last Modified Time as a trigger, so unless a row has a modification I have no way to trigger it for an email… I’m kind of perplexed on how to do something very simple…

hey everyone, I’m not sure why but I’m getting an empty result when using filterbyformula with a date function. I’m trying to receive all records that hold a certain date in a certain field. The field also might be empty on some records just if that matters, but I double checked there are records for these fields. Here’s my query… GET https://api.airtable.com/v0/appXYZ/Bestellungen?fields%5B%5D=Datum%20Abb.&fields%5B%5D=SU%20Beleg&filterByFormula=IS_SAME(%22Datum%20Abb.%22,%222021-12-20%22)&view=Buchhaltung%20Online%20DE So i’m doing filterByFormula with "IS_SAME(“Datum Abb.”, “2021-12-06”) I tried IS_AFTER and IS_BEFORE also to double check and even have more records to show but all I get is an empty result. I tried using other formulas on others fields that worked fine but I can’t get this to work. Am I overlooking something? Is the space in the field name causing any issues here? I mean it is URL encoded correctly but i’

Lately, when Zapier updates attachment fields with images, it briefly shows the attachment, but seconds later it completely deletes anything in that field. Even when there we’re already attachments, it deletes them. I saw that this problem happened over a year ago in closed threads, but now I’m experiencing it and it’s causing huge issues with my client. Support isn’t recognizing this issue as a known bug. Has anyone solved this?

I’m creating a custom app which uses a date input field. My computer clock is set to GMT+2, ie my time is 2 hours later than GMT. When I toggle the GMT setting on the date field, the local time appears 2 hours behind the GMT time when using record.getCellValue: Local date time (GMT setting off): ‘2022-01-01T10:04:00.000Z’ GMT date time (GMT setting on): ‘2022-01-01T12:04:00.000Z’ I can’t understand why the local time is earlier than gmt when it should be later. Also, I can’t understand why the local datetime string is being formatted as a utc datetime string, as this doesn’t follow ISO8601. When I use record.getCellValueAsString, it returns the string ‘1/1/2022 12:04pm’, regardless of the gmt setting. I notice that the datetime string returned by the REST API seems to change in the same way as record.getCellValue, even though the docs say that only a utc datetime string is returned. Any help/insights appreciated.

dear airtable community, i have a record that i want to move to another table when the checkbox is filled. to do so i have set up an automation you can see down below. now i want to add the feature, that the moved record should be deleted in the first table and therefore i need a custom script. unfortunately i dont have any experience in scripting and therefore am reliant to your help. if anybody could come up with a suiting script that would be highly appreciated! i browsed the forum already but without any success. thanks in advance and stay safe! :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi all, I am trying to adapt a script from postman where I successfully tested my API call. My issue is that the API secret key needs to be encrypted when I send the request but this requires Crypto-js. Is there a workaround available in Airtable scripting block to make this work: var CryptoJS = require('crypto-js') // the Authorization header needs to have this very particular format, which the server uses to validate the request // the access key is provided for the server to retrieve the API key; the signature is encrypted with the secret key var hmacString = (method + '\n' + onNonce + '\n' + authDate + '\n' + headers.get('Content-Type') + '\n' + path + '\n' + queryString + '\n').toLowerCase(); var signature = CryptoJS.enc.Base64.stringify(CryptoJS.HmacSHA256(hmacString, secretKey)); var asign = 'On ' + accessKey + ':HmacSHA256:' + signature; headers.append('Authorization', asign); For reference the above co

Hi! I have a sort of complicated situation and I’ve been able to figure out what i need to do, but not the way to actually accomplish it. I have a base with three tables in it: Jotform (A) | Supplies (B) | Split Requests (C) Table A is bringing in responses, Table B is a list of every unique item that has been requested in the jotform, and Table C is where I will split up requests with multiple items in Table A to separate ones. In the Jotform, people can select multiple items in one form submission. even though someone might send in one form submission, that submission might include 50+ items. The jotform takes the info for each item (data points like item,qty,notes) and separates them by comma, and each item by a line break. that’s my way in with parsing out the data. I need to take a cell that might say: Apples,50,red apples Apples,49,granny smith Peaches,23 Oranges,44 and split that into separate requests in Table C. then

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Hey guys! I would be very interested in working with the Airtable metadata API. A lot of my use cases are straight up not implementable without it. I have filed a request to get access a while ago and I know that you guys are currently not giving out any new metadata api access tokens for new developers. But is there any timeline/roadmap on how this will evolve in the near future? Would be great if you could shed some light on that. Thank you.

Hi I am rather new to coding and was rather proud of myself to get the following script working. I just wanted to list all the field names, types and descriptions, for each table in my base, in another table called “Field list”. It worked on my test base, but when I run in on the base I wanted to use it with, it only writes approx 14 records. Oddly in the console, it lists all the fields and descriptions. I tried using await - but get the above error (I think this is something to do with trying to write too many records in one go? I am sure my script is bad and also suspect this is a simple error. Any advice appreciated. Script below Thanks, Andrew const tables = [“Transactions”, “Suppliers”, “Master Budget”, “Primary budget lines”, “Secondary budget lines”]; tables.forEach(function (table_name) { console.log('Looping through ',table_name); let input_table = base.getTable(table_name); for (let field of i

Hey Y’all, Is anyone familiar with Google Data Studio? Context: I’m playing with an idea of archiving data from Airtable. To do that, I’m routinely exporting the JSON output from the API, and appending a CSV in Google Cloud Storage. I’m using that CSV to create a report in Google Data Studio. Problem: I’m at a loss of how to leverage Linked Records in visualizations, which output from the API as an array of Record IDs. Currently, Data Studio only sees them as strings. Questions: What are my options for replicating many-to-many linked record relationships in Google Data Studio? Will I need to load my data into Big Query first? If so, what are some best practices/suggestions for working with Big Query I can leverage? Links are much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Hi I’m trying to build a script that updates a multiple select field from one option “option1 / option2 / option3” into multiple options after I map through the string to make each word an individual option. Example Before: option a : "option1 / option2 / option3" After: option A: option1 option B: option2 option C: option3 Any ideas on how this could be done?

I’m trying to simply copy text from one column to another. Only about 20% of the records are being copied over. However the console logs each name correctly… Im using this script, which i’ve edited for my own use from here: Using a script to add values from one field to another

I have a script that calls an API and writes the JSON objects to my table. This has hit the limit of what I know about scripting. Can anyone help modify my script so that on the next call, it will update any records that exist and insert any records that are new. I assume I need an IF statement to look for an existing ID and validate if the associated string matches ELSE create a new record. My existing script is: let response = await remoteFetchAsync(“APIURL”, requestOptions); let json = await response.json(); let table = base.getTable(“Titles”); for (i=0; i < json.length; i++) { let recordId = await table.createRecordAsync({ “Title”: json[i].Title, “ID”: json[i].ID }) }; Thanks!

Currently, I am using the API to get record(s) information. I have a query like this: filterByFormula=Search(‘478-1160-1’,Upper({MD Part Number})) which the syntax is working either by returning 1 or more records. However, I am wondering if there is a wild character that I can pass in case that instead of “dashes” there is spaces or other character. So I can do something like: filterByFormula=Search(‘478%1160-1’,Upper({MD Part Number})) Thanks in advance.

Hi! We sync Airtable records to our own bases via Airtable API. The thing is when a record is deleted in Airtable it just vanishes from Airtable API. To discover deleted records in API we have to iterate all records in both source and destination bases. Then delete records in destination with Airtable Ids that are missing in source. Is there a way to track deleted records in Airtable to delete them in destination base without a one-by-one comparison? Thank you.